Lyon vs. Barcelona champions league, Preview
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Groupama Stadium will host the first phase of the last-16 tie this week, before both the teams will clash in Camp Nou on March 13.
Lyon
It is surprising that this is the first time in seven seasons that Lyon has reached the knockout stage of the Champions League. French organizations are facing their 10th-final-16 encounter in the competition, and despite losing the first three, they have lost in five of their last six bouts in this phase.In fact, during this phase of the competition, Lyon's final victory took place during the 2009-10 campaign, when he defeated Real Madrid 2-1. However, he was beaten by APOEL in the 2011-12 season, and in recent years it has got a real struggle to compete in this phase of the Champions League.
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Bruno Gencio's side is underdogs, but he has lost only one of his last 10 European matches, while he has won seven and lost his last 13 home games in only one of the European games. What's more, this stage of the Champions League has been defeated only 1 time in the league-1 organization - 2-0 inversion from Roma in 2007.
Lyon will host Barcelona in the Champions League for the first time since February 2009. During that particular season, he stopped horns in the 16th round, and Lyon played a 1-1 draw on home soil, losing to 5-2. The second stage in Camp Nou happened to exit Aggregate 6-3.
The fact is that Lyon never defeated Barcelona in the European match, it is a matter of concern, but the French side has won all six of their last seven competitions in all competitions, on Friday night at the Guingamp in the league 2 Includes the success of -1
In the beginning of this month, Gencio's side - third in Paris - Paris-St-Germain 2-1 on home soil, while there is no question that they have all kinds of problems in the Spanish competitions on Tuesday night. To have the talent to do
This is a tough question for Lyon to defeat Barcelona with two feet, but a positive result in the first round on home soil will definitely give them an opportunity to advance to the quarterfinals of Europe's elite event.
Barcelona
Although there is a complete possibility that Barcelona will yet have another La Liga and Copa del Rey in the field this season, the Champions League is a trophy that the Catalan veterans really want to take up to the end of the campaign.In fact, the famous club has not won this competition since 2015 and has lost in the quarter-final stage in each of the last three seasons, which is not good enough for their ilk team.
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Ernesto Valverde's side is without a win in his last five knockout games, but he won both Tottenham Hotspur and PSV Eindhoven in the group stage of this season's competition, as well as draws 1-1 in Inter Milan. Total 14 points saw him in Group B ahead of Tottenham.
The presence of Lionel Messi means that the legion of Catalan veterans should be seen as favorites for this season's trophy. However, it would be fair to say that they are not in the best form in recent weeks.
In fact, Valverde's side had just finished the last part of Real Valladolid in La Liga on Saturday night, and he had included his last three matches in all competitions leading up to the weekend stability.
Barcelona now has a seven-point lead on top of La Liga, but they will face a huge game in Seville on next weekend before traveling to Real Madrid for the second leg of their Copa del Rey semi-final on February 27. Once again with the bang when they came back to Los Blancos once again in the league.
The fact is that Barcelona won only seven of their last 19 games in the Champions League, that the 90-minute time for the Spanish champions would be difficult on Tuesday.
Team news
Lyon will be 25 years old for the first leg without his captain Nabil Fekir and will be out of suspension. The Frenchman has 11 goals in all competitions this season and his absence is a big setback for the hosts.Chief midfielder Tanguy Ndombele is also battling ankle problem, while defender Jason Denayer was replaced against Gingmap on weekends and is seen as a suspicion.
Marcelo, however, the fatigue of Friday should be fit only after suffering from cramps in stability.
Memphis Depay has scored six times and this season has 13 registered for Lyon, and former Manchester United attacker would be eager to make another strong performance against the top-level European club.
For Barcelona, Thomas Vermaelen is unavailable after raising the bull's problem against Valladolid, including Rafinha with Belgium, Jasper Cillessen and Arthur.
Samuel Umtiti is unlikely to suffer from knee problem, but there will be many changes from the starting team against Valladolid at the weekend.
Luis Suarez, Ivan Rakitic, Nelson Semédo and Clement Lenglet will all come back, but Philippe Coutinho can be left on the bench once again, with Ousmane Dembele, he was expected to get a node in front 3.
Lyon possible lineup Dream11
GK: Lopes
DEF: Marcal, Marcelo, Denayer
MID: Mendy, Aouar, Ndombele, Tete
ST: Depay, Dembele, Cornet
Barcelona possible lineup Dream11
GK: Ter Stegen
DEF: Semedo, Pique, Lenglet, Alba
MID: Busquets, Vidal, Rakitic
ST: Dembele, L Suarez, Messi
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